Archive for June, 2016

Here is another garden of the HEDGE (Horticultural Endeavours Demonstrating Gardening Enthusiasm) to delight you. It is certainly warming revisiting these photographs of Warrawong on a frigid winter’s night when snow has been falling in the nearby town of Daylesford up on the Great Dividing Range.

These photographs were taken last November.

Warrawong sits high on a ridge overlooking the tiny settlement of Yapeen.

This week I had the opportunity to draw this picture in soft pastel. I had been waiting for weeks for the oaks in one of my favourite sections of Castlemaine’s Botanical Gardens to reach the peak of their autumnal glory.

It is early winter and the oaks are among the last of the deciduous trees to acquire their autumn colour. It was fine, but chilly, when I commenced the drawing on Monday morning, but Wednesday morning was just glorious. There were plenty of people out walking – many with their grandchildren or dogs. Nearby, a small group was practising Qi Gong.

Crimson rosellas, Australian magpies and Bronzewing pigeons enjoyed the bounty offered in the gardens that morning.